United Nations

A safe, voluntary, and dignified return.

Today is World Refugee Day, a day to “show support for families forced to flee.”

This evokes memories of the UN Security Council’s visit in late April to Bangladesh and Burma (Myanmar) to survey the Rohingya refugee crisis. Council…

Worst nightmares brought to life

Guest post by Gareth Bayley, UK Special Representative for Syria on the United Nations International…

Breaking the silence

Ending the stigma of sexual violence in conflict

The Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative (PSVI) is now in its fifth year. When the UK Government launched the Initiative, Sexual Violence in Conflict was rarely talked…

12 Tweets: #UKPres edition

The 12 tweets that rocked Twitter at the UN this week.

A Security Council trip to a crisis zone. A walk-in to show that #GirlsCount. Action on bringing Daesh to justice, International Women’s Day, and the race against…

Guilt, poison gas and Wilfred Owen revisited

Today the Security Council voted on a resolution seeking to hold accountable those who were responsible for the use of chemical weapons. The resolution failed because Russia and China vetoed it.

“They have gone from siege to slaughter.”

Statement by Ambassador Matthew Rycroft, UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations, at Security Council emergency meeting on Aleppo

“We had a chance today to help those people, to stop the bombing, to let aid in. We have once again failed, but we must keep trying until we succeed.”

Statement by Ambassador Matthew Rycroft, UK Permanent…

“I can announce that the UK and France are calling for an emergency session of the Security Council”

Remarks to the press by Ambassador Matthew Rycroft, UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations, on Syria